The Promise of the Sixth Commandment – A Kingdom Catechism

The Promise of the Sixth Commandment

A Kingdom Catechism

You can be like God.

Q 98: What does the Lord promise in the sixth commandment?

A 98: In exchange for obedience to the sixth commandment the Lord promises that it will be well with His people and they shall be like their Father, Who is in heaven. (Deut. 19:11-13; Matt. 5:43-48)

God is the Author and Father of life. He seeks the well-being and blessing of humankind, attending to our needs continuously, for the just and unjust alike. His attitude is ever one of love; His words and gestures are the same. God thus provides the model, especially in the example of our Lord Jesus Christ, for how we must love our neighbors and guard against wishing or doing them ill. To the extent that believers are diligent in this, they refract the glory of God and the image of our Lord Jesus Christ, and, being thus filled with all the fullness of God, may be assured that it will ever be well with their soul and with them.

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In the Gates is a devotional series on the Law of God by Rev. T.M. Moore, editor of the Worldview Church. He serves as dean of the Centurions Program of the Wilberforce Forum and principal of The Fellowship of Ailbe, a spiritual fellowship in the Celtic Christian tradition. He is the author or editor of twenty books, and has contributed chapters to four others. His essays, reviews, articles, papers, and poetry have appeared in dozens of national and international journals, and on a wide range of websites. His most recent books are The Ailbe Psalter and The Ground for Christian Ethics (Waxed Tablet).

Scripture quotations in this article are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, (c) copyright 2001, 2007 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.